In the spotlight: The week’s top performers

Here are the top performers for the week of May 25 through this past Saturday: (PLEASE NOTE: This is the final “In the spotlight” of the school year. We will start it again in the fall)

Athletes of the week

Miguel Vasquez, Andrew Hill
Sport: Track and field
Events: 1,600, 800
Class: Senior
In seventh place at the beginning of the final lap in the 1,600 at the state track and field finals, Vasquez unleashed a blistering kick, running a 58-second last lap to take second with a time of 4:08.44. He also came in seventh in the 800 final.

Sarah Robinson, Gunn
Sport: Track and field
Position: 1,600, 3,200
Class: Junior
Robinson placed third in the 1,600 in 4:48.37 as she was part of a sweep of the first three places by CCS runners and fifth in the 3,200 in a personal-best time of 10:26.65 at the state track and field championships.

Highlight reel

Bellarmine College Prep 4×100 relay team: The team of Taylor Njaka, Aaron Chapman, Nikolai Makarov and Joey Sanfilippo broke its own school record with a time of 41.58 at the state meet trials, then lowered it again in the final, clocking 41.56 to take sixth place.

Piedmont Hills girls 4×400 relay team: The team of Timarya Baynard, Bianca Bryant, Alex Diaz and Ellisa Bryant ran a Central Coast Section-record time of 3:41.14 to take first place at the state track and field championships. The Pirates became only the third team from Northern California to win the girls 4×400 relay in state meet history.

Jonathan Beering, Serra track and field: Beering, the CCS leader in the shot put all season, came in eighth at the state final with a mark of 58-3.

Bianca Bryant, Piedmont Hills track and field: The sophomore ran the second leg on the record-breaking, state champion relay team and also placed fourth in the 800 in a time of 2:10.65.

Ellisa Bryant, Piedmont Hills track and field: In addition to anchoring the Piedmont Hills relay to a first-place finish, Bryant placed third in the 400 with a time of 54.64.

Joseph Ilaoa, Homestead track and field: Ilaoa threw the discus a school-record 187-6 at the state meet trials, then went 183-5 in the final to take fifth.

Taylore Jaques, Presentation track and field: Jaques, the defending champion, took fourth in the pole vault at 12-6.

Danielle Katz, Los Gatos track and field: Katz took sixth place in the 1,600 at the state final with a personal-best time 4:52.49.

Marisa Kwiatkowski, Wilcox track and field: Kwiatkowski placed fourth in the girls triple jump at the state final with a mark of 39-11. She also qualified for the long jump final with a personal-best 19-1 in the trials and took ninth in the final.

Maddy Price, Menlo School track and field: Price, the CCS 400 champion, placed sixth at the state meet with a time of 54.94.

Greta Wagner, Los Gatos track and field: Wagner tied for second in the girls pole vault at the state finals by clearing 12-113⁄4.

Jaylen Wright, Bellarmine College Prep track and field: Wright took fifth in the 110 high hurdles at the state final with a time of 14.24.